Super Workplane Wish

[zoomer]

As stated,

rotated Workplanes are thought as temporary.

That is fine for the intended use.

So what I mean can more be seen as one or more

additional coordinate systems.

Where temporary could even mean a time frame

of more than a year, but the ability to not loose

one of these like with workplanes and so the ability

to switch between them easily.

As an example,

you are working on a Building.

Normally you don't care about its exact north orientation but

orient your drawing in a rectangular manner just to make

drawing easier.

So when you now have a Building where Parts of it are also

rectangular but oriented at a special angle,

you want to be able to draw that part as easy as the main

part of the Building. You want to set your working plane to

a special origin and a special angle.

In this case you want a new coordinate system oriented

to the geometry, that gives you the same temporary

Workplanes orientations, without loosing the angle

of the coordinate system.

And the ability to switch between normal and special

coordinate system whenever you switch between working

on one or the other part of the building.

[zoomer]

Forgot that I expect all Tools to work properly when

working in a rotated environment.

[Markvl]

I like that idea zoomer as well. Drawing objects in angles can be tedious and it would be great to, as it were, temporarily align angled sections of objects to a x,y (horizontal,vertical) screen fashion. I think it would be easy enough that you'd select your origin/rotation point and select a second point along your objects angle and the plan would rotate accordingly and then there would be a return to the original plan button/function. Rotating your entire plan is cumbersome.

[zoomer]

Must be a german problem with non rectangular site angles and

twisted parts of buildings

There is more feedback about that missing feature on the german forums

[Will]

I think it already does this. Have you tried the "rotate plan" command? It's at the top of the drawing window just to the right of the top/plan drop down menu. I think you can save it as a saved view if you want to go back to this rotation.